EP 101 Connecting & Inclusion Presence Challenge

This meditation will help you recognise the fear that keeps you from connecting and including, not to fight it, but to see it clearly enough that you can choose differently. Because when you include what is here, all of it, something shifts. You feel more complete. More whole. That is what healing actually is, not the absence of difficulty, but the presence of you within it.

We live in a world that is more divided than ever. More reactive, more resistant, more loud about what it doesn't want and doesn't like. And if you look closely, what we're collectively fighting against is almost always something natural, something that simply is. The ego, yours and mine and everyone else's, does not like connection and inclusion. It would rather divide, judge, and push away, because that is how it keeps itself safe.

And yet the truth is simple: the full moment, exactly as it presents itself, holds everything. The pleasant and the unpleasant, the easy and the difficult, the welcome and the unwelcome. The moment you can include it all, you connect with it all. And the moment you connect with it all, you are actually here. The moment you resist even one part of it, the suffering begins.

This is not a small practice. This is the practice, and it may be the most important one of our time.

Press play, sit with what is here, and allow this meditation to bring you home to yourself.

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JJ van Zon is a Dutch consciousness coach, yoga & meditation

teacher, and author — based in the Netherlands. English is his

language of choice when it comes to meditation and movement:

it's where his art lives.

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This meditation is part of the Presence Practice series —

and part of PRESENT, JJ's online membership platform for

conscious living, mindfulness, and presence work.

Want to go deeper into your presence practice?

👉 Join PRESENT only for the DUTCHIES 🇳🇱 (7-day free trial):

https://jjvanzon.plugandpay.com/present

👉 More about JJ van Zon:

https://jjvanzon.com

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EP 100 - When Doing Nothing Is Your Something Meditation

What if doing something... means doing nothing?

This is episode 100. And what better way to mark it than

with this: just sitting here. With yourself. In this moment. Your Presence Practice!

In this guided meditation, JJ van Zon invites you to simply

sit with yourself — right here, right now. No agenda.

No fixing. Just presence.

Inspired by a powerful moment from Oprah's Super Soul Sunday, where Sister Joan Chittister responds to the question

"What can we do?" asked by Oprah with: "Wherever you are... do something."

Sister Joan reminds us that kindness, compassion, and love

are actions — big and small.

JJ makes it his own: what if your something today is

becoming aware of this moment — and of yourself in it?

That awareness is the beginning of being kinder to yourself,

and to the world around you.

That's a big something.

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JJ van Zon is a Dutch consciousness coach, yoga & meditation

teacher, and author — based in the Netherlands. English is his

language of choice when it comes to meditation and movement:

it's where his art lives.

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This meditation is part of the Presence Practice series —

and part of PRESENT, JJ's DUTCH online membership platform for conscious living, mindfulness, and presence work.

Want to go deeper into your presence practice?

👉 Join PRESENT only for the DUTCHIES 🇳🇱 (7-day free trial):

https://jjvanzon.huddlecommunity.com/resources/present1

👉 More about JJ van Zon:

https://jjvanzon.com

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Episode 99 Wintertree Meditation is a grounding guided meditation focused on stability, inward rest, and quiet strength.

For those moments when the outer world keeps asking, but something in you needs to root, slow down, and be held.

You are invited to imagine yourself like a tree in winter, rooted deeply into the earth. Nothing is required of you. Energy naturally moves inward, the nervous system settles, and a sense of calm stability can emerge without effort.

With the royalty free music “Earth’s Embrace” by Christopher Lloyd Clarke.

Guided by JJ van Zon, life and stress coach, meditation and yoga teacher.
More coaching and programs at jjvanzon.com

Namasté.